• $11.99
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X-Men: First Class - Matthew Vaughn

Bossypants (Unabridged) - Tina Fey

Soul Surfer - Sean McNamara

MTV Unplugged: Thirty Seconds To Mars - 30 Seconds to Mars

Rio (2011) - Carlos Saldanha

Rango (2011) - Gore Verbinski

The EntreLeadership Podcast - Dave Ramsey, hosted by Chris LoCurto

Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil - Mike Disa

One Christmas Eve a long time ago, a baby crawled into Santa's bag of toys... Raised as an elf, Buddy grows into an adult three times larger than the biggest elf--and realizes that he will never truly fit in at the North Pole. This holiday season, Buddy goes looking for his true place in the world--in New York City. Buddy finds his workaholic father…who's on Santa's "naughty" list, a new mother and a 10-year-old brother who doesn't believe in Santa Claus or elves. Here, now, Buddy discovers his destiny…to save Christmas for New York and the world! Starring Golden Globe and Emmy Award-nominee Will Ferrell ("Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," TV's "Saturday Night Live"), Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-nominee James Caan ("The Godfather," "Funny Lady"), Golden Globe-winner and Emmy Award-nominee Bob Newhart (TV's "Newhart," "Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde"), Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner Edward Asner (TV's "Lou Grant," "JFK"), Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Mary Steenburgen ("The Brave One," "Melvin and Howard") and Zooey Deschanel ("Almost Famous," "Failure to Launch").

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Introduction to Peachtree Accounting 2012

Introduction to Microsoft Outlook 2010

Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Intermediate Dreamweaver CS5

I've noticed that it is trendy to name versions of software or whatnot. So, I have decided to name HTML5 "Cinco". Likewise, I have decided to name HTML4 and all previous versions, "HTML", primarily because HTML4 is really the beginning of it all and < HTML4 is seemingly insignificant.

So, from no on, please refer to HTML5 as "Cinco" and any previous versions as simply "HTML".

What is Codeworks?

Session 1: Unit Testing Strategies

What I learned

Session 2: Learn to love the front end

What I learned

• I'm on the right track
• HTML5, CSS3, JS (jQuery) is the way to go for most applications
• Achieving desktop like behavior is the goal "It's 2010, there's no reason for a page refresh!"
• Flash has an amazing real time collaboration tool

Session 3: APIs from the ground up

What I learned

• I've been building API's all along!
• I need to consider what happens when more than one users "checks out" a page.
• I need to consider what happens to the session when a user changes locations, or IP's, or browsers.
• Frapi is a cool little tool to help build API's
• I need to understand what "Nonce" is???

Session 4: A hundred thousand users.. now what?

What I learned

• I need a plan for a major server load to scale quickly.
• I need to rely on the cloud more.
• I need to rely less on the DB.
• Have a way to "rollback".

Session 5: Object orientation the 5.3 way

What I learned

• PHP 5.3 has some cool stuff.
• I should make sure that my code is ready for the upgrade.

Session 6: Five Tools You Should Know & Love

What I learned

• Wow, I need to do more analyzing my server and code efficiency.

Conclusion

 What is the Google Font API and the Google Font Directory?

• A choice of high quality open source fonts.
• Works in most browsers.
• Extremely easy to use.

Visit the Google Font Directory now

This site is intended to be a repository of code and reusable libraries which address common needs that many web developers encounter. The code found here is based on standards but also tries to be backwards-compatible for browsers which don't support the standards. The information on the site emphasizes standards-compliance for best results, and best practices which should be followed. This is not a site containing snippets of code submitted by anonymous, unreliable coders. All code on the site is written by one person, in a consistent fashion, tested thoroughly, and used in practice by thousands of web sites around the world.

This document is a list of best practices and preferred ways of developing javascript code, based on opinions and experience from many developers in the javascript community. Since this is a list of recommendations rather than a list of absolute rules, experienced developers may have slightly differing opinions from those expressed below.

Google, like several others, have opened up their CDN servers to host popular javascript libraries. This is a cool way to offload some of your bandwidth on to Google. It also speeds up development if you just want to test or try a javascript framework.

  google.load("chrome-frame", "1.0.2");
  google.load("dojo", "1.5");
  google.load("ext-core", "3.1.0");
  google.load("jquery", "1.4.2");
  google.load("jqueryui", "1.8.5");
  google.load("mootools", "1.2.4");
  google.load("prototype", "1.6.1.0");
  google.load("scriptaculous", "1.8.3");
  google.load("swfobject", "2.2");
  google.load("yui", "2.8.1");
  google.load("webfont", "1.0.11");

I just launched a new personal project site http://onitunes.us. I've had the blog (http://blog.onitunes.us) for awhile. Durring my staycation I decided to kick it up a notch. Check it out and make fun of me...Oh, and if you click on any of the iTunes links I'll get a little something from it. So click click click!

To build this site I used:

• jQuery
• jQuery UI
• jQuery Lazy Load Plugin
• jQuery Media Plugin
• jQuery Browser Plugin Detection
• jQuery iPod-style Drilldown Menu
• iTunes Store Web Service Search API

Ever wanted those flash iPhone on/off toggle switches on your webpage? Love jQuery? Well then I’ve got something special for you. iphone-style-checkboxes implements the iPhone toggles as replacements for standard HTML checkboxes. Simply run the script and your site will be updated with these specialized controls. Best of all, the underlying checkbox is not touched and backend system will never know the difference. The change is purely visual.

The iPhone Style Checkboxes jQuery script by Thomas Reynolds is pretty cool. I've used it on a couple of projects and I love how it works. I did have one small problem with form submissions. I sent a message to Thomas and he quickly responded. He wasn't able to help, but it's still cool that he had a dialogue with little ol' me. It turns out that when submitting a form, you'll need to make sure to make the value of the checkbox one.

input checked="" name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="1"

jParse is a jQuery plugin that allows you to parse XML that was fetched with the jQuery .ajax method (making it fully customizable). It's compatible with jQuery 1.4+, easy to use and ultra lightweight at only 2.18KB! Best of all, it's compatible with all major browsers.

I really enjoy using jParse. It's easy to implement and there are several features right out of the box that are pretty cool. As of this writting it is still in beta. I can't wait to see how this plugin develops. It's perfect for parsing normal RSS feeds. I wish that there was additional functionality that would allow reading children of element tags to allow for parsing of more complex XML.

Happy national coffee day! I'm not sure how coffee got it's own day, but I like it. I'm also not sure what you're supposed to do on national coffee day besides drink coffee. Anybody have some insight for me?

(by Forever the Sickest Kids)



{re-posted from "The theme song of the day is..."}

Have you had your coffee break yet? Well, in case you needed an excuse, today is National Coffee Break Day!



Y'all know I don't need an excuse to drink it!

My addiction love for the stuff began in college. I had tried it before and didn't like it, but I guess it grew on me. Or maybe I started liking it out of necessity! Either way, all it took was some hazelnut creamer & a late night talk about Jesus with a roomie.

Hazelnut coffee + Jesus = pure bliss!





So...how about you? Do you drink coffee? If so, when did you start? What's your favorite way to drink it?

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I recently heard of something that I thought was strange - Egg Coffee. At first I thought that it was some kind of baked dessert or something. Then, I thought it may be like a quiche of some sort. It turns out that it is eggs and coffee!?!?

All of my life, whenever I have enjoyed a nice cup of hot fresh coffee, I always thought in the back of my mind...do you know what this coffee is missing? Egg. AHHH, not really! So where did this strange concoction come from? And is it really any good?

It turns out that Egg Coffee is a Scandinavian tradition. Wise Geek gives us a little bit of history on Egg Coffee:

"Egg coffee was very popular in Scandinavian countries like Norway and Sweden up until around the 1930s, when the demand for this drink began to wane. In the late 1990s, egg coffee experienced a resurgence; it's possible that Midwesterners brought egg coffee back, since the American Midwest is home to many Scandinavian traditions which are no longer observed in Scandinavia itself. Many Midwesterners associate egg coffee with Lutheran churches, since this beverage is commonly served at church events in this region of the world."

Ingredients

• 8 Quarts & 1/2 Cups of Cold Water
• 3 Cups Ground Coffee
• 3 Eggs
• Cheesecloth

Instructions

"If you get the job of making coffee at a church social or family reunion, save some time and frustration by inverting the stack of coffee filters. They're much easier to separate that way." —Elaine Warshaver, Nashua, New Hampshire

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Ingredients

• 1/4-ounce Bourbon
• 1/2-ounce Chambord
• 1/2-ounce Frangelico
• Freshly brewed hot coffee
• Serving suggestion: Garnish with freshly whipped cream
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Directions

"Overall, the research shows that coffee is far more healthful than it is harmful."

"...children who drink coffee with milk each day are less likely to have depression than other children."

I was introduced to Vietnamese Iced Coffee about seven or eight years ago. My wife and I were housing Neviah Nevi, a touring hard core band, at our home and they were like Vietnamese Iced Coffee evangelists. The loved it and were very excited to enlighten us. They told us all about it and showed us how to make it. They even gave us a starter kit!

So, what the heck is Vietnamese Iced Coffee? I'm glad you asked.

"Ca phe sua da or cafe sua da (Vietnamese: cà phê sữa đá) is a unique Vietnamese coffee recipe. Literally, the name means "iced coffee with milk". In northern Vietnam, it is also called ca phe nau da (Vietnamese: cà phê nâu đá), meaning "iced brown coffee". Ca phe sua da can be made simply by mixing brewed black coffee with about a quarter to a half as much sweetened condensed milk and then pouring it over ice.". Wikipedia. 03-14-2010 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_iced_coffee.

• Coffee, often times with chicory (like Cafe Du Monde)
• Sweetened condensed milk (like Eagle Brand Milk)
• Ice
• 2 Coffee Cups (you should never drink alone)
• Spoon
• Filtered water
• Tea Kettle
• Vietnamese Coffee Filter

While many people feel that coffee should be a drink that you have first thing in the morning as you rush off to work, there are even more people that feel that coffee should be enjoyed and savored. Coffee is great as a solo act but it really has star power when it has an assistant or two. Coffee is best enjoyed with _________. But what really goes great with coffee?

I like a good oatmeal raisin cookie with a half caff 130 degree latte with no foam. Or, how about coffee cake? That is why that call it that, right? Undeniably, chocolate is a great companion to any cup of coffee. Amy really loves chocolate. She got me this coffee mug to make sure that I knew that she loves me more. If you love chocolate as much as Amy, our friends at Chocolate.com - The World's Largest Chocolate Marketplace can satisfy your chocolate cravings.

I think that anything sweet will be a sure fire winner with coffee. But, what about salty or savory? A slice of New York or Chicago style pizza with an espresso? A California Roll with a double shot americano? They sound like they would go good together, because pizza Italian ~ cappuccino Italian / sushi west coast ~ coffee west coast, but I'm not sure they really go together. Maybe afterwards, but not during. Ever notice that you don't see coffee bars at the movies? Would you want a chi latte with a tub of buttery popcorn? With a movie sized chocolate bar, yes. With an order of nachos, I don't think so. I guess perhaps the Cappuccino Jelly Belly jelly beans would be ok too.

I love coffee just as much as the next coffee lover, but there are just some things that make it more enjoyable than others. Really, I think that nothing goes better with coffee than another cup and a friend to drink it with you. Coffee is a social drink. It brings people together and incites conversation. So, next time you're having coffee grab a brownie and split it with a friend. It doesn't get any better than that.